Derrida down under

[Michael Hoover]

> >Doug
> >Yoshie, how does the "pomo" canon play in Japan, if at all? 
> 
> If you have time, check out Karatani Kojin's _Origins of Modern Japanese
> Literature [Nihon Kindai Bungaku no Kigen]_ (Durham: Duke UP, 1993
> [originally published in Japanese in 1980]), which comes with "Foreword" by
> Fred Jameson, and "The Discursive Space of Modern Japan" in _Japan in the
> World_ (Eds. Masao Miyoshi & H. D. Harootunian. Durham: Duke UP, 1993).  
> Yoshie

Masao Miyoshi & H. D. Harootunian also edited _Postmodernism and Japan_
(Duke, 1989).  Essays include:

'On Culture and Technology in Postmodern Japan,' Tetsuo Najita
'Of City, Nation, and Style,' Isozaki Arata
'Modernity and Its Critique: The Problem of Universalism and

  Particularism,' Naoki Sakai
'Against the Native Grain: The Japanese Novel and the "Postmodern"

  West,' Masao Miyoshi
'Japan's Dual Identity: A Writer's Dilemma,' Oe Kenzaburo
'One Spirit, Two Nineteenth Centuries,' Karatani Kojin
'Infantile Capitalism and Japan's Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale'

  Asada Akira

Michael Hoover